by Alethea | Mar 25, 2017 | Ship's Log
The forward section of the winter cover is off, the first of our seasonal crew arrived just in time for Sandwich Saturday (hi, Sara!) and the fighting top is back on the foremast. In other words: we’re danger-close to uprig. The rest of the crew will be arriving...
by Alethea | Mar 17, 2017 | Ship's Log
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The crew is celebrating with a traditional dinner (shoutout to Pip for taking on the daunting task of cooking enough corned beef and cabbage rolls for a bunch of sailors), but before that, we have the usual laundry list of work: more...
by Alethea | Mar 11, 2017 | Ship's Log
The starboard aft waterway timber is back in place. Yesterday, Team Carpentry broke out the epoxy and lag bolts to turn three shaped and scarfed pieces of Douglas Fir into one very big piece of waterway timber. It’s a more complicated version of what we did to...
by Alethea | Mar 9, 2017 | Ship's Log
Niagara has a foredeck again! We installed our shutter plank (the last plank to be fastened in place; also affectionately called the whiskey plank) this afternoon. It’s a little weird to have a deck again. Now we actually have to open the forepeak hatch to do...
by Alethea | Mar 2, 2017 | Ship's Log
Niagara’s carpentry A-team is officially here! The usual suspects (Adam, Alethea, Amy) and the visiting shipwrights (Andrew, Andros, Aaron) spent the week so far working on the starboard waterway timber, the fore fighting top crosstrees, and the foremast...
